Grant Wiggins – TeachThought

5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy

Many educators have a mistaken view of the Bloom’s Taxonomy and the levels in it, as the following errors suggest.

Note that there are no books about education on the list from 1990 – present. Too early to make the call, in my humble opinion.

One condition: There is no single, obvious, or superficial solution path – yet, the task is ‘doable.’

An authentic assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic contexts.

Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the kind of groundwork.

What is ‘academic reading’? And do my students know exactly what to do when they struggle with it both in and outside of the classroom?

The problem: transfer of understanding is poor. Students do not understand that the long-term and bottom-line goal of education is transfer.

Mastery of a complex whole requires designing backward from the complex whole and the interesting questions related to it.